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<p>Konqueror is getting some great, very recent, reviews, but the reviewers always downgrade it because, they say, there are no addons or plugins.</p>
<p>However, there is a blog post on this site showing not only are these available, but also there's a way of converting Netscape plugins to use with Konqueror -- here:<br />
http://linuxappfinder.com/package/konq-plugins</p>
<p>I see the conversion application (also linked on this site) is compiled for Hardy (by now, a bit old) but yet, there is mention that it's for KDE4, and that's still in use. Is there a typo here, or should the .deb run OK in a current Kubuntu??</p>
<p>Please reply with details if you or anyone you know is actually using any of the Konqueror plugins/addons listed on the linked page, above.</p>
<div class="forum-topic-navigation"><a href="/node/702" class="topic-next" title="Go to next forum topic">OTRS Agent Notification not received ›</a><br class="clear" /></div>http://www.linuxappfinder.com/node/3866#commentMon, 15 Apr 2013 06:31:37 -0500RonCam3866 at http://www.linuxappfinder.comOTRS Agent Notification not receivedhttp://www.linuxappfinder.com/node/702
<p>Hi,</p>
<p> I have stuck in OTRS (Open Ticket Request System) Application which is based on Linux.OTRS link given below:<br />
http://otrs.org/</p>
<p>I have installed OTRS system in Linux Fedora 9.Everything is working fine in OTRS instead of Agent Notification.</p>
<p>Like,when the customer generates the ticket on OTRS than the customer got the auto reply and email notification from OTRS system but the agent does not get any email notification.POP 3 and SMTP are working fine. have checked the same by generating a Trouble ticket from my end as customer.</p>
<p>I have already done task on OTRS which is given below:<br />
1)Disable the SELinux from /etc/selinux/config.<br />
2)In Agent Preferences, I have select YES option in Mail Management for all modules.<br />
3)I have checked the syslog but their is no error.<br />
4)][Notice][Kernel::System::Ticket::Article::SendAgentNotification] Sent<br />
agent 'NewTicket' notification to HYPERLINK<br />
"mailto:'[EMAIL PROTECTED]"'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.(But I didnt see this SendAgentNotification file)</p>
<p>Anybody knows this issue than please suggest me.</p>
<p>Guys its kind of urgent.</p>
<p>thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Sandeep Mehta</p>
<div class="forum-topic-navigation"><a href="/node/3866" class="topic-previous" title="Go to previous forum topic">‹ Konqueror and plugins</a> <a href="/node/484" class="topic-next" title="Go to next forum topic">Run Command Line Apps From A GUI ›</a><br class="clear" /></div>http://www.linuxappfinder.com/node/702#commentMon, 23 Mar 2009 08:57:21 -0500sandeep_mehta702 at http://www.linuxappfinder.comRun Command Line Apps From A GUIhttp://www.linuxappfinder.com/node/484
<p>I came across a neat program today called <a href="/package/kaptain">Kaptain</a>. Its premise is simple, but it may be a solution for those who don't like the command line, or have trouble remembering the available switches, but don't know of a good graphical alternative. </p>
<p>Kaptain displays a graphical interface with radio or check boxes for available switches and text boxes for everything else. A brief sampling of the supported programs is listed below. </p>
<p>find<br />
grep<br />
ls<br />
tar<br />
wget<br />
whois</p>
<p>A template script is needed in order for an app to be supported. There are many useful apps included by default, but you can also add your own.</p>
<div class="forum-topic-navigation"><a href="/node/702" class="topic-previous" title="Go to previous forum topic">‹ OTRS Agent Notification not received</a> <a href="/node/483" class="topic-next" title="Go to next forum topic">How Do You Find Apps? ›</a><br class="clear" /></div>http://www.linuxappfinder.com/node/484#commentSun, 02 Jul 2006 00:33:15 -0500chadm484 at http://www.linuxappfinder.comHow Do You Find Apps?http://www.linuxappfinder.com/node/483
<p>I've been doing some thinking recently on how everyone searches for an app. So far I have identified the five primary methods that are listed below. Please drop by the forums and let everyone know how you do it. We'd love to hear from you and will use the comments to better tailor this site to meet your needs. Stories about what you have had a hard time finding on Linux App Finder would be great. </p>
<p>In the descriptions below I'll explain what I came up with and also state how Linux App Finder either supports it or some ways that are being considered. </p>
<p>App Finding Methods<br />
Browsing lists<br />
Keywords<br />
Specific tasks<br />
Specific features<br />
Alternatives to a known application</p>
<p>Browsing lists is a great way to find an app when you have a vague idea of what you are looking for, need a program that fits easily into a category, or you just want to see what's out there. This method also encompasses the others, but with less efficiency. Linux App Finder is currently built around categories that start from <a href="/all">All Applications</a> and get progressively refined with each additional selection. It's an essential function, but one that needs support. </p>
<p>The second method is searching for keywords, and it is for this purpose that both the Google search box and Linux App Finder's built in search both exist. The Google search does a good job in finding any words that appear on the page and can also be used for more advanced queries. It's primary flaw is that the Google index will not always have the latest content. </p>
<p>The built-in search field that appears on each category page runs real-time queries, but it is also limited. The primary limitation is that is only searches using a single word or phrase. Its keys strengths are accuracy and real-time results that can look through only the program's name or its name, description, and a few associated keywords. </p>
<p>The next three tasks are where the current features of Linux App Finder are no longer sufficient. Searches based on specific tasks or features will sometimes find what you are looking for, but not always. And depending upon the number of results found, it may be hard to filter out the apps you are really interested in. </p>
<p>Looking for alternatives to a known application is of particular importance to the GNU/Linux user because most new users started with another OS (mostly Windows). If you spend much time reading a Linux forum, site, or magazine it doesn't take long to see an example of this. Browsing similar categories can provide a good starting point, but you may also be distracted by apps that have a different focus or are not real feature equivalent alternatives. </p>
<p>At this point you might be wondering how these deficiencies will be addressed, so I'll get to the point. While there is no specific timeline on implementing these features, there are some plans. I consider alternative applications to be the most useful of what isn't covered, so I'll likely start there first. The new section, that I'm tentatively calling "Switching From Windows", will feature a category listing of its own, but will contain Windows apps instead of Linux ones. </p>
<p>In some cases the app might reference itself because it is supported on both Windows and Linux, but the most useful cases will be programs that are Windows only. When you select the app's link it will take you to a Wiki with information about features and alternatives. I plan to add content for the initial Windows programs that are listed, but registered visitors will be able to add their own opinions and additional equivalent apps. It will also be possible to add a new Windows app to the category listings. </p>
<p>That's it for now, but as I mentioned previously, please add your thoughts by selecting the Discuss link below. It will take a while to implement some of these proposed features, but I hope you'll stick with us while we continue to add improvements and additional content.</p>
<div class="forum-topic-navigation"><a href="/node/484" class="topic-previous" title="Go to previous forum topic">‹ Run Command Line Apps From A GUI</a> <a href="/node/481" class="topic-next" title="Go to next forum topic">My Search for a DVD Ripper ›</a><br class="clear" /></div>http://www.linuxappfinder.com/node/483#commentSun, 18 Jun 2006 11:08:50 -0500chadm483 at http://www.linuxappfinder.comMy Search for a DVD Ripperhttp://www.linuxappfinder.com/node/481
<p>I'm currently in the process of writing a comparison of available DVD ripping programs for GNU/Linux. I picked the best contenders that I'm aware of and compared their features and ease of use. The goal was finding the best app for converting the main movie of a DVD to a single file playable on any computer and the winner is a surprising one (at least to me since I almost didn't include it). As a bonus I threw in a few apps targeted at creating DVD ISO's for burning back to a rewritable disk. Hopefully it will be ready to go within a week. Keep an eye on the News RSS feed for an announcement. </p>
<p>The apps I will be reviewing are: </p>
<p>AcidRip<br />
dvd::rip<br />
DVD Rip-O-Matic<br />
K3b<br />
K9Copy<br />
OGMRip<br />
Thoggen<br />
xDVDShrink</p>
<p>I had also intended to review Drip, but it had unmet dependancies in Debian unstable and would not install.</p>
<div class="forum-topic-navigation"><a href="/node/483" class="topic-previous" title="Go to previous forum topic">‹ How Do You Find Apps?</a> <a href="/node/480" class="topic-next" title="Go to next forum topic">Comic Strip Aggregation ›</a><br class="clear" /></div>http://www.linuxappfinder.com/node/481#commentTue, 06 Jun 2006 12:04:14 -0500chadm481 at http://www.linuxappfinder.comComic Strip Aggregationhttp://www.linuxappfinder.com/node/480
<p>The theme of the day is comic strip aggregation. A few days ago I added a file cleanup utility called Kleansweep to the database and discovered another interesting program from the same author: QComicBook. This got me to wondering how many other comic book readers are available. </p>
<p>Quite a few as it turns out. As a result of these new additions I added a new Comics subcategory under Viewers. There are a mix of graphical (GUI), web, and command line (CLI) interfaces to choose from which I'll separate out below. You can also use the "Filter Options" link on each of the category pages to limit the apps that are displayed to only the types you are interested in. </p>
<p>GUI </p>
<p>ComicViewer<br />
QComicBook</p>
<p>Web </p>
<p>eGroupWare<br />
phpGrabComics<br />
phpGroupWare Comic</p>
<p>CLI </p>
<p>Comics Grabber<br />
Dailystrips<br />
Dosage<br />
GrabCartoons<br />
Strip Club</p>
<p>If you enjoy reading comics and can't find the ones you want in your local paper, a comic book aggregator is a great way to get your daily comic fix.</p>
<div class="forum-topic-navigation"><a href="/node/481" class="topic-previous" title="Go to previous forum topic">‹ My Search for a DVD Ripper</a> <a href="/node/479" class="topic-next" title="Go to next forum topic">The Da Vinci Code: Anagrams, Art and Religion ›</a><br class="clear" /></div>http://www.linuxappfinder.com/node/480#commentTue, 30 May 2006 07:28:50 -0500chadm480 at http://www.linuxappfinder.comThe Da Vinci Code: Anagrams, Art and Religionhttp://www.linuxappfinder.com/node/479
<p>With the release of The Da Vinci Code to movie theaters last weekend and its use of anagrams as ciphers to hide directions to the location of the Holy Grail, I thought it would be a good time to talk about some of the anagram programs available for Linux. For many people anagrams are most commonly found in the board game Scrabble&#8482;, where a random selections of letters have to be assembled into a word that can connect with another on the board. </p>
<p>There are four programs currently in the Linux App Finder database that are anagram games: Anagramarama, KAnagram, KMessedWords, and Wordplay. KMessedWords has recently been replaced by KAnagram in the KDE Edutainment module. Each of these four programs offers anagram puzzles as quick fun games that can also be used to train for games like Scrabble. If you enjoy puzzles then check them out. </p>
<p>Art is another primary theme in the Da Vinci Code. The movie opens and closes at the Louvre in Paris, one of the worlds premiere museums, and the artwork of Leonardo Da Vinci is central to the story's plot. Two recent programs that I added to the database allow you created some art of your own. Metapixel and Pixelize are both photomosaic generators. To get started you need two things: an image you would like to create a photomosaic from; and a large library of image to use as each of the mosaic's tiles. The final result is a very cool picture that uses your own photos as the basis to build each of the details. If you aren't sure what I'm describing, the websites for both programs have some good examples. </p>
<p>The final, and biggest, theme of the movie is religion. I won't cover the debate since that is exhaustively discussed in other forums and not appropriate here, but I will highlight a bible study tool called BibleTime. If you are interested in researching any area of the bible, this app is a good place to start.</p>
<div class="forum-topic-navigation"><a href="/node/480" class="topic-previous" title="Go to previous forum topic">‹ Comic Strip Aggregation</a> <a href="/node/477" class="topic-next" title="Go to next forum topic">Accounting Software ›</a><br class="clear" /></div>http://www.linuxappfinder.com/node/479#commentTue, 23 May 2006 00:07:16 -0500chadm479 at http://www.linuxappfinder.comAccounting Softwarehttp://www.linuxappfinder.com/node/477
<p>I just finished adding a lot of personal finance and small business accounting software to the database and thought it would be a good time to do a brief post on the state of the available Linux options. Accounting software is one of those frequently quoted as being a limiter in switching from Windows to Linux. Intuit's Quicken and Microsoft's Money are clearly the leaders in personal finance and supported by most banks while Intuit's QuickBooks program is often cited as the app for small businesses. Unfortunately, none of these have a Linux version. So where does that leave us Linux users? </p>
<p>Fortunately, there are alternatives. Quicken, Money, and QuickBooks can all be run as is under Linux using the Wine program. Wine allows native Windows apps to be run on Linux, but there's a catch, not all programs work and some only partially do. While there are exceptions, one of which I will mention later in this post, most software vendors do not support this and will not fix a Wine related issue. Different versions of each program will also behave differently. For a quick look at what level of success others have had, check out the Wine Application Database. There is also a commercial program available called CrossOver Office that aims to make it easier to use Wine and specifically focuses on getting popular apps supported. </p>
<p>As you can see, there are a lot of compromises with the aforementioned soultion, so it's not for everyone. This is where a growing list of native Linux and supported on Linux apps come in. This is not meant to be a review of these apps so I won't be drawing any conclusions about them or spending time talking about each individually, but it should give you a good place to start in order to find the one that fits for you. </p>
<p>Gnucash is probably the most well known and is joined by a slew of other apps as the free entrants into the field. Grisbi, jGnash, KMyMoney, Kurush, Lazy8 Ledger, PLCash, Qhacc, and Quasar Accounting are all traditional finance apps that are great for either home or small business use. </p>
<p>Moneydance is an intriguing, professionally done app that is supported on Windows and Mac OS X in addition to Linux. It isn't free, but then again, neither are Quicken, Money, or QuickBooks. Another non-free app, and one just added to the database this week, is Kapital, a personal finance manager designed for use with KDE. </p>
<p>The remaining three apps currently in the Linux App Finder database are non-native apps. TurboCASH is a new addition this week, and is fully supported on Linux, but requires Wine to run. The other two are SQL-Ledger and MyPhpMoney, both of which sport web interfaces. </p>
<p>With such a broad field to choose from, the chances are you will be able to find the features you need. However, if you already use one of the Windows apps, the biggest roadblock to switching remains retraining. Getting the basic double entry accounts set up and used shouldn't be a difficult transition, but more advanced reporting and budgeting may be more challenging. </p>
<p>If you've tried any of these apps please share your experiences and let us know how you think they stack up.</p>
<div class="forum-topic-navigation"><a href="/node/479" class="topic-previous" title="Go to previous forum topic">‹ The Da Vinci Code: Anagrams, Art and Religion</a> <a href="/node/476" class="topic-next" title="Go to next forum topic">Hard Drive Imaging ›</a><br class="clear" /></div>http://www.linuxappfinder.com/node/477#commentThu, 18 May 2006 16:27:10 -0500chadm477 at http://www.linuxappfinder.comHard Drive Imaginghttp://www.linuxappfinder.com/node/476
<p>I've been a fan of drive imaging for a while now. I used Norton Ghost in my first job after college to clone drives for testing in the lab and a couple years later I bought Acronis True Image for backing up my home computer. Imaging an entire drive instead of just backing up documents, pictures, music, etc. not only conserves your irreplacable data, but it also provides an easy path to rebuilding your entire system. </p>
<p>As many of you will notice, Ghost and True Image are Windows programs, although Acronis does have a True Image Server product for Linux. There are some quality imaging apps for non-Windows environments as well. I say non-Windows because g4u (Ghost for Unix), doesn't run on Linux, but uses NetBSD instead. Despite this fact, I added it to the Linux App Finder database for the same reason I add web apps, g4u can be still be used if you run a GNU/Linux OS. This is possible because g4u is not just a simple program. It is released as a boot disk which makes it useable for any operating system with supported file systems. </p>
<p>Other alternative apps I have found are Partition Image, dd, Mondo, and Ghost for Linux. However, each of the five Linux usable apps I have mentioned all share the same flaw, each one requires a terminal. I haven't found a single Linux drive imaging app that runs off a GUI (preferably Qt or Gtk). If you know of one I have missed please let me know. </p>
<p>Many of you may not consider a terminal only interface to be a problem, but for many users conditioned to using a mouse and comforted by a pretty interface, it could be a big enough deal for them to not even try the program. Hopefully someone will set out to fill this gap. As someone always on the lookout for a better backup program, an easy to use drive imager would be great to have.</p>
<div class="forum-topic-navigation"><a href="/node/477" class="topic-previous" title="Go to previous forum topic">‹ Accounting Software</a> <a href="/node/475" class="topic-next" title="Go to next forum topic">The 3D Web ›</a><br class="clear" /></div>http://www.linuxappfinder.com/node/476#commentTue, 16 May 2006 21:23:59 -0500chadm476 at http://www.linuxappfinder.comThe 3D Webhttp://www.linuxappfinder.com/node/475
<p>Welcome to the first entry in the Linux App Finder Blog. I'll be using this blog to talk mostly about interesting Linux apps and the first I'd like to mention is a development kit rather than an app, but it has the potential to produce some great end user content. I recently noticed it in an article on News.com titled: Mapping a path for the 3D Web. The premise is a group of industry visionaries getting together to discuss a potential vision of the Metaverse (aka 3D Web), which for me conjures visions from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash or Tad Williams' Otherland series. </p>
<p>The article was interesting, but the most interesting part was mention of a software platform called Croquet. The cool thing about Croquet is how it has the potential to tie together multiple online worlds into a single 3D operating system. It also addresses how to access both 2D and 3D content. Looking at the screenshots provides a nice glimpse at what is possible. </p>
<p>What I like best about the interface is that it mimics some of the interactions and comforts of the physical world we are used to, but without giving up the advantages of a virtual world. In fact it could make navigating those worlds much easier. The main concept appears to be a basic three-dimensional space that can be built upon, much like erecting the walls of a house. Some of the example screenshots simply show a panel floating in the air, but those panels could also be integrated into a wall of a virtual museum or store. </p>
<p>These panels can serve up two-dimensional content or they can be a portal to another 3D world that you can step through by yourself or with a friend. Which brings me to one of the most promising aspects of Croquet - collaboration. Imagine having a virtual meeting place set up with your friends and the possibilities a 3D environment could provide. Instead of going to a chat room, instant messaging, or voice chat, you could go to your new online hang out where everyone is represented by an avatar and interacting with virtual objects. </p>
<p>Seamless voice chat could be implemented so you don't have to switch to a chat window to type or another application to speak. If you decide to play a game together or visit another 3D world you could travel there without having to separately load a game and find a server. Another fun idea that will be possible as bandwidth and more immersive viewing become possible is getting together with friends in far away physical locations to watch some football or the latest episode of your favorite TV show. </p>
<p>The possibilities are limitless and the ones I mentioned are only a few, and probably far from the best uses. I'm looking forward to following the project's progress and seeing what creative developers out there can come up with.</p>
<div class="forum-topic-navigation"><a href="/node/476" class="topic-previous" title="Go to previous forum topic">‹ Hard Drive Imaging</a><br class="clear" /></div>http://www.linuxappfinder.com/node/475#commentSat, 13 May 2006 16:17:19 -0500chadm475 at http://www.linuxappfinder.com